The McNair Scholars Program will be holding informational sessions to introduce interested students to their program. First, a bit about McNair:
The McNair Scholars Program aims to prepare undergraduate students for graduate education through the provision of the following services:
- GRE preparation
- Research experience and stipend
- Mentoring relationship with faculty
- Opportunities to attend conferences and
- present research
- Academic counseling and tutorial support
- Waivers for graduate school applications
- Assistance with funding for graduate school
- Professional & academic development workshops
- Social and cultural activities
- Community of scholars
Program Eligibility Includes:
- Strong interest in attending graduate school
- U.S. Citizen or permanent resident
- Sophomore or Junior class standing
- Minimum GPA of 3.0
- First generation college student with financial need or a member of an underrepresented population (African-American/Black, Hispanic/Latino, Native American) or underrepresented in your field
The information sessions they are offering are:
| Session 1 | Session II |
| Wednesday February 20th 7:00 – 8:30pm Bowne Hall 119 |
Thursday February 21st 7:00 – 8:30 pm Bowne Hall 119 |
Please help us extend a warm welcome to our new data administrator, Samir Malovic! Samir recently joined the Honors staff to assist us in managing the complexities of our program’s data, as well as provide support for Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honorary societies, coordinate the Honors vans, and help us in other important ways. Samir’s most recent position was with Sedgwick, an insurance claims management firm where he worked as an operations data analyst.
Honors has a channel on Vimeo! Each year we have many amazing video and film submissions made by our Capstone students, that we needed a way to be able to feature and share them as fine examples of Honors quality work. All you juniors, sophomores, and freshmen will benefit from being able to see the best examples of Capstone films on our Vimeo archives. Our channel is 
The Maxwell in Washington (IR/DC) semester is a terrific opportunity – many Honors students have found it an incredible experience. We have TWO info sessions: the one on the poster below, and a SPECIAL one with the Director of IR/DC, Ryan Williams, just for Honors students.
Called “The Culture and Politics of Reconciliation in Central Europe”, this is an opportunity for students to study the challenges of reconciliation in places in Europe that have experienced dramatic upheavals and tragic events – as they travel from Strasbourg (a symbol of post WWII reconciliation and united Europe), to Dresden and Berlin (the struggle to remember and represent the tragedy of the Holocaust), to Auschwitz/Birkenau (the former Nazi concentration camp), and to Wroclaw, Poland (formerly Breslau, Germany), where students will build on the ideas of memory, conflict, and reconciliation inscribed in this city’s streets, cemeteries, monuments, and buildings. Using action research, students will work together to produce self-guided tour brochures that offer a deeper view of the city and its complex history.